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My signup button disappears while filling out my password on a form

This is a two-part question.
Part 1. The passConfirm function that I currently have is there to make sure that the password and confirming password values match. Right now, when I type in my password the button disappears. The purpose of this function is to display a message while the user is creating a password and confirming it, that the password does or does not match. Does anyone know why that is happening based on the code I have?
Part 2. Is there a way to refactor my passConfirm function? I tried doing it by adding it to the validateForm function (Please see commented code for my example). It wasn't working tho.
function printError(elemId, message) {
document.getElementById(elemId).innerHTML = message;
}
function validateForm() {
event.preventDefault();
var name = document.regForm.FullName.value;
var email = document.regForm.email.value;
var phone = document.regForm.phone.value;
var password = document.regForm.Password.value;
var confirmPassword = document.regForm.ConfirmPassword.value;
const phoneno = /^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$/;
var nameError = emailError = phoneError = passwordError = true;
//Empty name input error message
if (name == "") {
printError("nameError", "Please enter your name")
}
//Empty email input error message
if (email == "") {
printError("emailError", "Please enter a valid email")
}
//Empty phone input error message
if (phone == "") {
printError("phoneError", "Please enter your phone numnber")
}
//Non valid phone number error messsage
if (phone.match(phoneno)) {
return true;
} else {
printError("phoneError", "Please enter a valid phone number")
}
//Empty Password input
if (password == "") {
printError("passwordError", "Please enter a password")
}
//Empty Cofirm Password input
if (confirmPassword == "") {
printError("confirmpassError", "Please confirm your password")
}
//I tried refactoring the passConfirm function and additing it here.
//if (password.match(confirmPassword)) {
// printPass("matchingPassword", "Passwords match")
// document.getElementById("matchingPassword").style.color = "green";
//} else {
// printPass("matchingPassword", "Passwords do no match")
// document.getElementById("matchingPassword").style.color = "red";
//}
};
var passConfirm = function() {  
if (document.getElementById("Password").value ==    document.getElementById("ConfirmPassword").value) {   
document.getElementById("matchingPassword").style.color = "green";   
document.getElementById("matchingPassword").style.fontWeight = "Heavy";   
document.getElementById("matchingPassword").innerHTML = "Passwords match!"  
} else {   
document.getElementById("matchingPassword").style.color = "red";   
document.getElementById("matchingPassword").style.fontWeight = "Heavy";   
document.getElementById("matchingPassword").innerHTML = "Passwords do NOT match!"  
} 
}
fieldset {
width: 420px;
height: 950px;
}
<h1>Hello, please register!</h1>
<div class="container">
<form name="regForm" class="form" onsubmit="return validateForm(event)">
<fieldset>
<div class="row">
<label>Full Name</label></br>
<input name="FullName" type="text" placeholder="John Doe" id="FullName" />
<span class="error" id="nameError"></span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Email</label></br>
<input name="email" type="email" placeholder="johndoe#email.com" id="Email" />
<span class="error" id="emailError"></span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Phone Number</label></br>
<input name="phone" type="tel" placeholder="(123) 456-7890" id="PhoneNumber" />
<span class="error" id="phoneError"></span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Password</label></br>
<input name="Password" id="Password" type="Password" placeholder="Password" onchange='passConfirm();' />
<span class="error" id="passwordError"></span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Confirm Password</label></br>
<input name="ConfirmPassword" id="ConfirmPassword" type="Password" placeholder="Confirm Password" onchange='passConfirm();' />
<span class="error" id="confirmpassError"></span>
</div>
<span id="matchingPassword">
<button type="submit" value="submit">Sign Me Up!</button>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>

Your button disappears because you use InnerHTML method to display the message, which overrides it. Though your logic works after passwords match when you press enter, you lose your button element. It is better to use a separate div or paragraph tag to display your message and keep your button as it is since it's part of the form.
Here is the change you can try
<span id="matchingPassword">
<button type="submit" value="submit">Sign Me Up!</button></span>
<p id="message"></p>
</fieldset>
var passConfirm = function() {
if (document.getElementById("Password").value == document.getElementById("ConfirmPassword").value) {
document.getElementById("message").style.color = "green";
document.getElementById("message").style.fontWeight = "Heavy";
document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "Passwords match!"
} else {
document.getElementById("message").style.color = "red";
document.getElementById("message").style.fontWeight = "Heavy";
document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "Passwords match!"
}
}

Basic HTML-Javascript based form validation

I am very new to js and html, could someone help me understand as to why my page is getting redirected to the next page even if the validation fails and my "validate()" function returns only FALSE!
I have created a form that takes name, age, email, state etc as input and it should ideally validate them and then proceed towards the next page.
Here is the code :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> My first web app </title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function validate(){
var name=document.getElementById('name_id').value;
var email=document.getElementById('email_id').value;
var age=document.getElementById('age_id').value;
var state=document.getElementById('state_id').value;
var address=document.getElementById('address_id').value;
//checking conditions for name
if (name_length<10)
{
return false;
}
if(!(/\w \w/.test(name2)))
{
alert("Please enter name correctly!");
return false;
}
if(/\d/.test(name2))
{
alert("Name cannot contain digits");
return false;
}
//checking conditions for email
var index_of_at = name.indexOf('#');
if(index_of_at == -1)
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return false;
}
else
{
var befor_at = email.substring(0,index_of_at);
var after_at =email.substring(index_of_at+1,email.length);
if(!(/[!-$?]/.test(before_at)))
{
if((/(\w|\d|.)/).test(before_at))
continue;
else
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return false;
}
}
else
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return false;
}
}
//checking conditions for age
if(/\w/.test(age))
{
alert("Please enter a valid Age");
return false;
}
else
{
if(age>100 || age<0)
{
alert("Please enter age btetween 0 and 100");
return false;
}
}
return false;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style = "text-align : center;"> Enter Details </h1>
<form action = "C:\Users\hp\Documents\Orgzit Project\handle.html" method="post" onsubmit="return validate();">
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name_id"><br>
Email:<br>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email_id"><br>
Age:<br>
<input type="text" name="age" id="age_id"><br>
State:<br>
<input type="text" name="state" id="state_id"><br>
Address:<br>
<input type="text" name="address" id="address_id"><br>
Photo: <br>
<input type="img" name="display-picture" id=photo_id>
<br> <br> <br>
<input type="submit" value ="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Could somebody please help me with why my code redirects directly to handle.html without checking for validations?

You're trying to get the length of name as follow: name_length this is a typo, however, you have another error: a continue keyword
if((/(\w|\d|.)/).test(before_at))
continue;
^
else
Changed to:
if((/(\w|\d|.)/).test(before_at)) {
//continue; You need to modify this part.
} else {
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return false;
}
You need to understand that continue keyword must be placed within a loop, i.e: for-loop.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> My first web app </title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function validate(e){
var name=document.getElementById('name_id').value;
var email=document.getElementById('email_id').value;
var age=document.getElementById('age_id').value;
var state=document.getElementById('state_id').value;
var address=document.getElementById('address_id').value;
//checking conditions for name
if (name.length<10)
{
alert('Please enter name correctly!');
return false;
}
if(!(/\w \w/.test(name2)))
{
alert("Please enter name correctly!");
return false;
}
if(/\d/.test(name2))
{
alert("Name cannot contain digits");
return false;
}
//checking conditions for email
var index_of_at = name.indexOf('#');
if(index_of_at == -1)
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return false;
}
else
{
var befor_at = email.substring(0,index_of_at);
var after_at =email.substring(index_of_at+1,email.length);
if(!(/[!-$?]/.test(before_at)))
{
if((/(\w|\d|.)/).test(before_at)) {
//continue;
} else
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return false;
}
}
else
{
alert("Please enter a valid email address");
return false;
}
}
//checking conditions for age
if(/\w/.test(age))
{
alert("Please enter a valid Age");
return false;
}
else
{
if(age>100 || age<0)
{
alert("Please enter age btetween 0 and 100");
return false;
}
}
return false;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style = "text-align : center;"> Enter Details </h1>
<form action = "C:\Users\hp\Documents\Orgzit Project\handle.html" method="post" onsubmit="return validate(event);">
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name_id"><br>
Email:<br>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email_id"><br>
Age:<br>
<input type="text" name="age" id="age_id"><br>
State:<br>
<input type="text" name="state" id="state_id"><br>
Address:<br>
<input type="text" name="address" id="address_id"><br>
Photo: <br>
<input type="img" name="display-picture" id=photo_id>
<br> <br> <br>
<input type="submit" value ="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

If you want to start learning web development with html and javascript, i suggest learn shortest way to do it. For javascript validation check this jquery validation
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> My first web app </title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jquery-validation#1.17.0/dist/jquery.validate.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style = "text-align : center;"> Enter Details </h1>
<form action = "C:\Users\hp\Documents\Orgzit Project\handle.html" name="userForm" id="userForm" method="post">
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name_id"><br>
Email:<br>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email_id"><br>
Age:<br>
<input type="text" name="age" id="age_id"><br>
State:<br>
<input type="text" name="state" id="state_id"><br>
Address:<br>
<input type="text" name="address" id="address_id"><br>
Photo: <br>
<input type="img" name="display-picture" id=photo_id>
<br> <br> <br>
<input type="submit" value ="Submit">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#userForm').validate({
rules: {
name :{
required : true
},
email: {
required : true,
email : true,
},
age: {
required: true,
minlength:18, // Can define minimum age
maxlength:60 // max page
}
},
submitHandler: function(form) {
alert("All Well") ;
$("#userForm").submit(); // form tag id to sumit the form
return false ;
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
With jquery validation you can lots too much work with very short hand code.
Hope this will help, All the best.

Submitting form even when validation regex is wrong

i am having this problem when i submit the form where both the password and username is wrong. I get an alert box saying that i have enter the wrong details. But when the username is correct and password is validation is wrong it will give me an arlet box by when pressed ok it will submit the form even when i have returned false.
Help please much appreciated
<script type="text/javascript">
function validate(form_id, firstName, password){
var Reg = /^[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,20}$/;
var Reg1 = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])[0-9a-zA-Z]{8,}$/;
var username = document.forms[form_id].elements[firstName].value;
var password = document.forms[form_id].elements[password].value;
if (Reg.test(username) == false) {
alert('Invalid Username.');
document.forms[form_id].elements[firstName].focus();
return false;
}
if (Reg1.test(password) == false) {
alert('Invalid Password.');
document.forms[form_id].elements[password].focus();
return false;
}
}
</script>
<form id="form_id" action="userlogininput.cgi" onsubmit="javascript:return validate('form_id','firstName','password');" name="form" method="post">
Username : <input type="text" id="firstName" name="firstName" class="textboxH-300" required><br>
Password : <input type="password" id="password" name="password" class="textboxH-300" required><br><br>
<input id="submitbtn" type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>

You can use e.preventDefault() to prevent form sending.
Here is a code example
(function(){
function validate(e) {
e.preventDefault(); // prevent the form sending
var Reg = /^[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,20}$/;
var Reg1 = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])[0-9a-zA-Z]{8,}$/;
var username = document.getElementById('firstName');
var password = document.getElementById('password');
if (Reg.test(username.value) == false) {
alert('Invalid Username.');
username.focus();
return false;
}
if (Reg1.test(password.value) == false) {
alert('Invalid Password.');
password.focus();
return false;
}
}
//add event listener for form submission
document.getElementById('form_id').addEventListener('submit',validate);
})();
<form id="form_id" action="userlogininput.cgi" name="form" method="post">
Username :
<input type="text" id="firstName" name="firstName" class="textboxH-300" required>
<br> Password :
<input type="password" id="password" name="password" class="textboxH-300" required>
<br>
<br>
<input id="submitbtn" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Try prevent default event.
Bind function to the form submit event:
function validate(form){
var Reg = /^[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,20}$/;
var Reg1 = /^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])[0-9a-zA-Z]{8,}$/;
var username = form.querySelector('[name=firstName]');
var password = form.querySelector('[name=password]');
if (Reg.test(username.value) == false) {
event.preventDefault();
alert('Invalid Username.');
username.focus();
return false;
}
if (Reg1.test(password.value) == false) {
event.preventDefault();
alert('Invalid Password.');
password.focus();
return false;
}
}
<form onsubmit="validate(this)">
<input name="firstName">
<br>
<input name="password">
<br>
<button type="submit">submit</submit>
</form>

Why my text is printed on page and soon disappears in js

this is my code
i was trying to make a signup form and i made a script
i jst tried that the username should contain both alphabets and numbers and nothing else
if this condition is true than it continues
else it will give an error message displayed jst below it
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<style>
#sign_up_details {
padding: 10px;
}
</style>
<form name="sign_up_details">
<h3>Enter your details below</h3>
<input type="textbox" id="username" placeholder="Enter your desired username" />
<p id="usrnm_check"></p><br>
<input type="password" id="password" placeholder="Enter your desired password" />
<p id="pass_check"></p><br>
<input type="textbox" id="email" placeholder="Enter your email id" />
<p id="email_check"></p><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" onclick="store()" />
</form>
<script>
var usrnm = document.getElementById("username");
var pass = document.getElementById("password");
var email = document.getElementById("email");
var usrnm_check = document.getElementById("usrnm_check");
var pass_check = document.getElementById("pass_check");
var email_check = document.getElementById("email_check");
function store() {
var newReg = /^[A-Z]+[a-z]+[0-9]+$/
if (usrnm.value.match(newReg)) {
//next action here
} else {
usrnm_check.innerHTML = "Username should have alphabets and numbers";
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
for eg when i keep the username field empty and click on submit the error which is to be displayed comes below it but it soon disappears.
i dont know the reason for it.

you will have to set the store in onsubmit event and not on the submit button onclick event because,onclick will execute the function and submit the form as well.
here is fiddle
execute function before submit
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<style>
#sign_up_details {
padding: 10px;
}
</style>
<form name="sign_up_details" onsubmit="return store()">
<h3>Enter your details below</h3>
<input type="textbox" id="username" placeholder="Enter your desired username" />
<p id="usrnm_check"></p><br>
<input type="password" id="password" placeholder="Enter your desired password" />
<p id="pass_check"></p><br>
<input type="textbox" id="email" placeholder="Enter your email id" />
<p id="email_check"></p><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<script>
var usrnm = document.getElementById("username");
var pass = document.getElementById("password");
var email = document.getElementById("email");
var usrnm_check = document.getElementById("usrnm_check");
var pass_check = document.getElementById("pass_check");
var email_check = document.getElementById("email_check");
function store() {
var newReg = /^[A-Z]+[a-z]+[0-9]+$/
if (usrnm.value.match(newReg)) {
//next action here
return true;
} else {
usrnm_check.innerHTML = "Username should have alphabets and numbers";
return false;
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

You can try something like this:
<form action="/dosomething.htm" method="GET" onsubmit="return store(this)">
[...]
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
function store() {
var newReg = /^[A-Z]+[a-z]+[0-9]+$/
if (usrnm.value.match(newReg)) {
//next action here
return true;
} else {
usrnm_check.innerHTML = "Username should have alphabets and numbers";
return false;
}
}
</script>
Notice return true and return false statements in store() and in form onSubmit. If the store() will return false the form will not get submitted. At present your message goes away after display because your form gets submitted even if the validation fails.
Hope this helps!!

Why validation for password field validation not working?

I'm new to the web programming can you please tell me what's wrong with following code?
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Form Validation</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function validate (form) {
// valriable declaration
var returnValue = true;
var username = form.txtUserName.value;
var password1 = form.txtPassword.value;
var password2 = form.txtPassword2.value;
// check for UserName length
if (username.length < 6) {
returnValue = false;
alert("Your username must be at least\n6 characters long.\nPlease try again.");
frmRegister.txtUserName.focus();
};
// check for password length
if (password1.length < 6) {
returnValue = false;
alert("Your password must be at least\n6 characters long.\nPlease try again.");
frmRegister.txtPassword.value = "";
frmRegister.txtPassword2.value = "";
frmRegister.txtPassword.focus();
};
// check for match of password field
if (password1.value != password2.value) {
returnValue = false;
alert("Your password entries did not match.\nPlease try again.");
frmRegister.txtPassword.value = "";
frmRegister.txtPassword2.value = "";
frmRegister.txtPassword.focus();
};
return returnValue;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" name="frmRegister" action="register.html" onsubmit="return validate(this);">
<div><label for="txtUsername">UserName : </label>
<input type="text" name="txtUserName" id="txtUserName" size="12" />
</div>
<div><label for="txtPassword">Password : </label>
<input type="text" name="txtPassword" id="txtPassword" size="12" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="txtPassword2">Confirm your password : </label>
<input type="text" name="txtPassword2" id="txtPassword2" size="12" />
</div>
<div>
<input type="submit" value="Log in" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

first of all stop using return from event handler.
convert your code to
<form ... onsubmit="validate(event,this)">
change your function to validate(event,form);
wherever you feel form should not be submitted..
write :
event.preventDefault()
instead of return false
Demonstration :
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/kGmeL